Men are pigs...

...example No. 23,419.

In India, about one woman per hour is killed over her dowry.

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-india-dowry-deaths-20130904,0,7340130.story


India's National Crime Records Bureau last week reported that 8,233 Indian women were killed in 2012 in dowry-related violence, or nearly one per hour. The incidence of dowry deaths grew by nearly 3% over the previous five years, and torture at the hands of a husband or family increased by 5.4%, with 99,135 cases reported by survivors in 2011.

 

How many in the U.S.?

 

By the same people who won't harm a cow...

 

Let 'em keep working that sex-selection abortion bit and in a few short years this dynamic is going to look a wee bit different ...

 

Maybe we should bomb India instead of Syria.

 

I live in a city with a huge Indian population and grew up in a city with an even larger one. I have found it quite rare to meet an Indian man older than, say, 40 who has the slightest amount of respect for women. The men born in Canada, sure - but not the ones born there.

 

That's interesting. When I was growing up, I had two close friends who were Sikh and while their fathers treated their mothers very well (at least as far as I could see) the grandparents who lived with them would treat the mothers like shit, even in front of the kids and guests and the wives never really said boo about it. It was just accepted.

 

Eh, different cultures are just, um, different. Ever look at treatment of women in the Islamic world?

 

No, never have. Maybe you can enlighten us?

 

Obviously Mark's an idiot, and you're being sarcastic, but...

When you consider that Muhammad took Aisha as his wife when she was either six or seven, and even by the most generous telling of the tale, consummated the marriage when she was nine or ten, you understand that women are fucked -- literally -- under Islamic tradition.

 

Next time you go out in public, be sure to cover your face. Paper bags are acceptable.

 

For those, like me, who wondered what a dowry is or entails:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry